Christmas
East Riding Christmas markets: 7 dates, Beverley 13 Dec
Seven confirmed Christmas markets, from Sewerby and Pocklington on 22 November to Beverley's 120-stall festival on 13 December, with times and parking.
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Christmas
Beverley Minster Christmas Tree Festival: 4 to 13 Dec, £6
Beverley Minster's Christmas Tree Festival runs 4 to 13 December, adults £6, under 18s free. Carols by candlelight 11 and 12 December, plus every concert.
Food hygiene
East Riding food hygiene: two zeros and 250 fives since July
Two East Riding venues were rated 0 this summer, in Bubwith and Ottringham, and six got a 1 or 2. Another 250 scored a 5. Withernsea has the lowest share of 5s.
Beverley
Weel Bridge reopens after 23 weeks, and Beverley tip with it
Weel Bridge reopened to traffic on 25 September after a £1m refurbishment, almost 23 weeks after it was lifted out. The Weel Road tip was due back on Saturday.
Music
Stolen From God at Hull's Middleton Hall on Thursday 8 Oct
Reg Meuross brings his slave trade song cycle to Middleton Hall, Hull, on 8 October, with Jeffrey Boakye narrating. Doors 6pm, show 7.30pm, tickets online.
Beverley
Beverley YBS: free online banking help Tuesdays from 6 Oct
Yorkshire Building Society's Saturday Market branch in Beverley will help people use its website and app free, every Tuesday, 10am to 3.30pm, from 6 October.
Events
What's On in Beverley: Pumpkin Patch, Fireworks 3 Nov
Butt Farm's pumpkin patch is open to 31 October, the Minster has candlelit concerts from 9 October, and Beverley's fireworks are on Tuesday 3 November.
Beverley
Beverley jewellers on Saturday Market approved as a pub
Prescott Jewellers at 2 Saturday Market can become a real ale pub, open until 11pm. Six letters of support, no objections, and it still needs a licence.
Bridlington
Bridlington pharmacist is a Community Pharmacist of the Year
Jaya Authunuri of West Hill Pharmacy, Bessingby Gate, is one of two UK Community Pharmacists of the Year at the 2026 C+D Awards, picked from 20 finalists.
Beverley
Beverley care home rated Outstanding in all five CQC areas
The Old School House on New Walkergate scored Outstanding in every category. Only 29 of England's 13,728 rated care homes held that on 1 September.
Beverley
Beverley Open Art Exhibition: 100 works, free, to 17 Dec
The 25th Open Art Exhibition is on at Beverley Art Gallery until 17 December: about 100 works by regional artists, free entry, and the work is for sale.
Christmas
Sewerby Hall Christmas 2026: Fairytales from 21 November
Sewerby Hall's Fairytales at Christmas runs on 15 days, 21 November 2026 to 3 January 2027. House entry £4.75 adult, festive market 22 November.
Beverley
Beverley Saturday Market works done: two more parking spaces
The £530,000 scheme has finished. Two pay and display spaces were added and six blue badge bays moved, but the council's car park page still says 98.
Beverley is the East Riding’s county town, with the Minster at one end, the market in the middle and the Westwood pasture running up to the racecourse. It is where the council sits, and it is where this site starts.
The council’s area goes a long way past it. Cottingham and Hessle are effectively Hull’s edge, Bridlington and Hornsea are on the coast, Driffield sits in the wolds, Goole is a working port on the Ouse, and Pocklington is out towards York. None of them thinks it is any of the others. What they share is East Riding of Yorkshire Council, which decides planning, bins, roads, licensing and council tax for all of them. Hull is a separate authority entirely, and we are clear about that line. We read the published record and report what it says with a link to the document.
Start with these
- House prices, town by town: the district average is £220,913, but a typical Beverley sale was £247,750 and a Withernsea one £140,000. Nine towns compared on real Land Registry sales.
- Trains from Beverley to London: two direct Hull Trains services a day, the fastest doing it in 2 hours 54 minutes. Everything after 08:10 changes at Hull or Doncaster.
- Roadworks and travel: the £86.9m A164 Jock’s Lodge scheme is due to finish by the end of 2026, and £600,000 of night resurfacing runs across Beverley to 29 September.
- Planning: the council is writing a new local plan to 2045 and the first consultation closes at 11.59pm on 31 August 2026.
- Things to do: the Minster, the Treasure House and the Guildhall are all free. Sewerby Hall is £13.75 and Skidby Mill £2.50.
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